today we are doing a quick run thru in what this week will look like and a quick review.
1. Selective Training and Service Act
1940
it is the draft
first peace time draft in history- after 73' the millitary depended on volenteers
2. Women's role in WWII
Rosie the Riveter-represented women workers in WWII
nursing- to help with injuries
secretaries for war letters for deceased
farmer,sales people, drivers, messangers, teachers
women ultimatly helped us win the war. in the home front.
womens army corp.-desk jobs,maps
waves- womens navy-desk jobs
wasp-womens army service pilots-test planes and move them around to new locations
3. African-American's role in WWII
still discriminated against
faught valiently in all areas of the military
the tuskegee institue- they were bombers
4. Asian's role in WWII
5. Hollywood's role in WWII
entertained troops
looney toons-john wayne-sending people over to entertain troops
Bob Hope
6. Office of Price Administration
7. War Production Board
8. National War Labor Board
9. Why the Homefront helped win the war
10. How US/Allies fought back against U-boats
makeing faster boats and being able to out manuver the u voats
intersepting germany transmissions/code
convoy system saling in bulk.
aspying and code breaking shared info
radar-hf/df-detectade uboats like sonar
enigma- german code sender- spolving the enigma machine was the greatest win in wwII-told us what they were planing
bombe- ultimately broke the code of the enigma machine
11. Intelligence gathering--Ultra/Magic
ultra-britain- code name for the intecepting and decifering of german code-less u boat attaches
magic-US-code name for the intercepting and decifering of japanese code-battle midway-first actual win against japan
both very top secret!! we worked together
hunter killer- ships and airplanes that tracked down u boats
12. Operation Barborossa(USSR vs Germany)
wanted ukraine-farmland- wanted oil fields in the caucasus mountains
lead by their jewish bulshivik- hated stalin with a passion.
defeating the ussr would further out isolate the allies- western front fighting was over.
use the people as slaves
THE BIGGEST LAND BATTLE IN WWII on june 22 1941
4.5 million german soldiers invaded
wanted ussr to be taken over quickly.
germanies army was split north-lenigrad - seige of leningrad started sept. 7 1941 ended jan. 27 1944 lasted 872 days- people resorted to canablisam. police had a special canablism combat force. but never took leningrad.
center-moscow- was the main focus got 12 miles away from moscow. battle of moscow turning point in the war
south-staligrad
13. Battle in Africa and Italy
Erwin Rommel- the desert fox- gerneral in the war in africa
Bernard Montgomery-monty
OPERATION Torch- invaded maracho in africa
casablanca confrense- before africa- ultimatly fdr and church hill called an unconditional surrender of germany.
sicilty and italy were very mountain so an uphill battle
italy was the soft spot of the axis power. and of europe
14. US Generals-Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Nimitz, Bradley
George C. Marshall-chief of the US military during WWII-his boss was the pres. second highest
Goerge Patton- was a major us gerneral- tough on troops- defeated rommel.
15. D-Day-Operation Overlord
had two phases
1 para troopers
2the invastion by water on the beaches of normandy
the atlantic wall
had cement walls and artilery fire and medal wall and machin gun turrents
16. Battle of the Bulge
hitlers last major offensive attach
to get to the sea and split the troops and take france back over.
coldest snowiest winter
over a million men were in the fight
the malmady masacure were 84 US soldiers were killed... just shot..
17. FDR Dies-Truman takes over
die april 8 1945 a month before ve day.
truman took over
18. VE Day
May 8 1945
Victory in Europe
parties every were
19. Battle in the Pacific-Island Hopping, Philippines, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,
20. Navajo Code Talkers
21. Doolittle's Raid
22. Manhattan Project
23. Hiroshima bombing
24. Nagasaki bombing
25. VJ Day
26. Yalta Conference
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
29. Why did the allies win WWI?
Henry Kaiser-ship builed /owner- makeing more ships and stuff than all other countries combined.
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